[rhn-users] Download security patches

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Donald Lambert wrote:

> José Miguel Gallardo Garrido wrote:
> > Hi, I have a network with many computers with licence and I want to use one
> > computer for build a local repository of security patches for the other
> > computers. How can I get it?
> > Thanks
>
> There are basically 2 options for use within the RedHat Network.
> 
> The first is a proxy service which authenticates to the actual RHN, but
> keeps a local cache via squid.
> 
> The second is a satellite server in which you obtain the complete
> channels then your other machines authenticate off of it.
> 
> In both cases you can have locally housed rpm packages.
> 
> The satellite service is a a nice way to have machines behind a firewall
> and only having to connect one machine to the DMZ (Internet) and RHN.

There is a third option. I've written a tool Yam that has RHN support. It 
uses up2date to download updates and provides them in a local repository 
for other systems. You can find the tool at:

	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

You can then use apt or yum (or up2date) to update your servers from this 
local repository.

Kind regards,
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